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Republicans wanted PBS and NPR to answer for, among other alleged sins, inadequately covering their fixation on Hunter Biden’s laptop; NPR’s unflattering coverage of Trump when he was a candidate; left-wing bias enumerated in an opinion piece by former senior business editor Uri Berliner, who resigned from NPR last year; and Maher’s incendiary tweets calling Donald Trump “a deranged racist sociopath” from 2020, when she ran the Wikimedia Foundation.

The attacks on NPR were fortified by a 2024 article by former longtime editor Uri Berliner, who wrote in the Free Press that the service was seeing a decline in listeners because it had “lost America’s trust.”

His post box work drew international attention when it caught the eye of famous spoon-bender Uri Geller.

"It would be a good signal at a time when we have movement in the opposite direction towards economic fragmentation and protectionism, especially with free-trade sceptic US President Donald Trump re-elected," says Uri Dadush, a research professor for trade policy at the University of Maryland in the US.

One of the greatest magic tricks I ever saw unfolded when Johnny Carson invited the illusionist Uri Geller on “The Tonight Show” to bend a spoon with his mind.